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(Liz: I once saw Katie Noonan doing her groceries in the Brisbane CBD, and I wanted to tell her how much I love her music, but I didn’t want to interrupt her while she looked at frozen peas, so I just flailed silently at my companion. GOOD TIMES.)

Actually bear with me for a moment: My mum loves this series, and I love it to. It’s cosy, an Auntie who runs a cafe wandering around solving murders in Singapore. And it’s so familiar. Every time I talk to my mum about whichever book she’s reading she tells me something familiar and comforting that made her happy, the way a character spoke or a street they walked down. And it got my mum back into reading, after several years of stress and anxiety and not finding joy in reading. Anyway highly recommended in general already, and now even more so with this article.

Except who translated kiasu as competitive and ambitious? That’s the most hilarious thing I’ve ever read.